It began as an average family hike through the Utah wilderness. Fifteen members of the Wynne family were hiking along in Utah when the group stopped to tighten a saddle on one of its horses. The family looked up and noticed that 9 year-old Grayson had disappeared.
Grayson, unaware that the family had stopped continued along the trail and eventually made his way onto a smaller, less noticeable trail. Once Grayson realized that he had been separated from his family he turned to his "training," skills he picked up through watching Bear Grylls on Discovery's 'Man vs. Wild.' Grayson ripped up pieces of his yellow raincoat and tied them to trees to help rescuers find him. It helped, because he was safely rescued 18 hours later.
On the show, Grylls, an ex-British Special Forces member and the youngest Brit to climb Mt. Everest shares survival tips with viewers should they ever find themselves stranded or lost in the wild (i.e. when you get separated from your family on a hiking trip). Grylls is notorious for going through extreme measures to preserve his life, and eating just about anything he can find for nourishment...like tarantulas.
Thankfully this story has a happy ending. Who says you can't learn anything by watching TV?
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